Landscape with a Multi-Arched Bridge

Frederik de Moucheron, c. 1660 - c. 1680

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-00-200
  • Dimensionsheight 215 mm x width 163 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and grey ink, point of brush and grey ink, with grey wash, over graphite; framing line in black ink

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Landscape with a Multi-Arched Bridge

? Amsterdam, c. 1660 - c. 1680

Inscriptions

  • monogrammed: lower left, in grey ink, M f

  • inscribed on verso: upper centre, probably in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil, .C _; lower centre, in a nineteenth-century or early modern hand, in pencil, _15; lower left, in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (partially concealed ) […(N°?)] 9-x

Technical notes

watermark: none

Provenance

…; ? sale, Johannes de Bosch (1713-1785, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 23 May 1785 sqq., Album C, no. 164; …; ? sale, Jan Danser Nijman (1735-1797, The Hague), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 19 March 1798 sqq., Album G, no. 9, fl. 8, or Album S, no. 5, fl. 18;1Copy RKD …; ? sale, Jacob de Vos (1735-1833, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 30 October 1833 sqq., Album C, no. 13, fl. 135, to the dealer A. Brondgeest, Amsterdam;2Copy RKD …; first recorded in the museum in 1973

Object number: RP-T-00-200

Entry

Although undated, the present sheet appears to be a late work. A closely related painting by the artist, Southern Landscape with Travellers near a Bridge (sale, Amsterdam [Christie’s], 14 November 2007, no. 87), featuring the same bridge, slender trees, elegant figures and building on a hillside in the distance, is likewise considered to be late as well. In that painting, the elements of the composition are rendered in a visually more attractive way, with the building in the left given a higher profile, its more slender proportions echoing the vertical accent of the trees. A couple in classical dress replaces the drawing’s figures of two men driving a donkey.

A now lost note by Van Regteren Altena on the old mount, ‘rather Frederik de M’,3According to Museum files: ‘êer Frederik de M (vRA)’. suggests that it was apparently once associated with Frederik’s son, Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744). It is, however, a good example of the senior De Moucheron, revealing the influence of Jan Hackaert (1628-after 1685). The composition varies to a large degree a drawing by Hackaert the latter in the Szépmüveszéti Múzeum, Budapest (inv. no. 1915-1183).4T. Gerszi, 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: A Complete Catalogue, coll. cat. Budapest 2005, no. 124.

Annemarie Stefes, 2019

Citation

A. Stefes, 2019, 'Frederik de Moucheron, Landscape with a Multi-Arched Bridge, Amsterdam, c. 1660 - c. 1680', in J. Turner (ed.), (under construction) Drawings 2, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200142843

(accessed 8 January 2026 11:15:10).

Footnotes

  • 1Copy RKD
  • 2Copy RKD
  • 3According to Museum files: ‘êer Frederik de M (vRA)’.
  • 4T. Gerszi, 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: A Complete Catalogue, coll. cat. Budapest 2005, no. 124.